Yehiyeh Sinwar was re-elected Wednesday as head of Hamas’s political wing in Gaza, extending his tenure as the Islamist movement’s de facto leader in the Israeli-blockaded Palestinian enclave, Hamas said...

Palestine registered 27 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the highest single-day rise since the beginning of the pandemic, the Health Ministry said Wednesday...

The government on Wednesday announced new measures to curb the recent surge in coronavirus cases in the Kingdom...

The UN Security Council on Wednesday condemned for the first time the violence against anti-coup protesters in Myanmar and urged the military to exercise utmost restraint...

To mark 10 years of conflict in Syria, EU lawmakers have held a debate on the current state of play. Many in the European Parliament point the finger at President Bashar al-Assad...

Bahrain’s police forces have beaten children they arrested on the anniversary of the 2011 pro-democracy uprising, threatening them with rape and electric shocks, according to two human rights groups...

Despite his campaign promises of ending the Forever Wars, Joe Biden has already entangled his presidency within them...

A few days before the now-infamous Oprah interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the British press reported that in 2018 Markle wore earrings gifted by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman (MbS)...

Cheap and accurate drone technology has allowed Houthi rebels to strike at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s domestic interests - something that would not have been possible a decade ago...

Equatorial Guineans are observing a three-day national mourning to pay tribute to the victims of Sunday’s explosions that have claimed at least 105 lives so far and injured over 600...

The Libyan government said Wednesday a new mass grave was found in the southern city of Tarhuna. “The grave was discovered in Alrabet project area in the city,” Abdulaziz al-Jaafari, a spokesman for the General Authority for Research and Identif...

Coronavirus will kill tens of thousands of Britons every year just like flu, one of the Government's top scientific advisers warned today...

Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has dismissed the country's top military official over the allegation that the military has effectively staged a coup against his government, despite President Armen Sarkissian’s r...

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on the administration of new US President Joe Biden to make good on its opposition to Israel’s settlement expansion across the occupied West Bank and take concrete measures to tackle the ...

China has summoned Britain's ambassador to Beijing over an "inappropriate" article that she published last week about freedom of the press in China...

Fukushima residents suffered no adverse health effects from radiation caused by the nuclear meltdown a decade ago at the prefecture's power plant, a new report from the United Nation's said...

Boris Johnson today delivered a stark warning that coronavirus is starting to 'surge' again in Europe as he snuffed out Tory hopes of an early end to lockdown...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for preventing “fake conversions” to Judaism, appearing to suggest asylum seekers and migrant workers from Africa would “overrun” Israel by undergoing non-Orthodox conversions to gain citize...

Lebanese people have reached another peak of devastation as the economic crisis badly impacts all citizens from all social classes...

Scientists are warning that Brazil's uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak could threaten the global fight to end the pandemic...